Critics claim that, in political contexts, labeling certain opinions and statements " hate speech " can be used to silence unfavorable or critical opinions and play down debate.

Critics have voiced widely varying opinions on where Rhapsody fits into the jazz canon.

Critics also claim that the opinions of the people have no actual weight in decision-making.

Critics differed in their opinions of the two editions: Robert Graves and George Bernard Shaw preferred the 1922 text ( although, from a legal standpoint, they appreciated the removal of certain passages that could have been considered libelous, or at least indiscreet ), while E. M. Forster preferred the 1926 version.

Critics hold varying opinions about the true nature of the First Vision, believing it to be a dream, a hallucination, a self-deception, an intentional fabrication, or some combination of these.

Critics were mixed in their opinions on the film.

Critics of the bill claimed that it would prohibit reciting various scripture condemning homosexuality, while supporters pointed out that the bill added an explicit defence against any charge of incitement of hatred for opinions expressed in good faith based on religious texts.

Critics had varied opinions about Death of a President.

Critics expressed mixed opinions of the game's audio.

Critics such as Mullarkey have returned to The Dinner Party in later years and stated that their opinions have not changed.

Critics were mixed in their opinions on the film.

Critics of this television series have spanned a long spectrum of opinions.

Critics opinions were mostly negative but indicated that the actors were not to blame.

Critics questioned the use of floating pontoons over salt water, especially at a location where tide fluctuations vary as much as eighteen feet and the funneling effect of the Hood Canal might magnify the intensity of winds and tides.

" Critics believed that An American in Paris was better crafted than his lukewarm Concerto in F. Some did not think it belonged in a program with classical composers César Franck, Richard Wagner, or Guillaume Lekeu on its premiere.

Critics of the 18th century — Guichard Folard and the Prince de Ligne — were unanimous in thinking Aelian greatly inferior to Arrian, but Aelian exercised a great influence both on his immediate successors, the Byzantines, and later on the Arabs, ( who translated the text for their own use ).

Capp appeared as a regular on The Author Meets the Critics ( 1948 –' 54 ) and made regular, weekly appearances on Today in 1953.

Critics argued that Whorf's ideas were untestable and poorly formulated and that they were based on badly analyzed or misunderstood data.

Critics of this theory regard it as simplistic, arguing that ( unlike New Zealand and America ) there is little direct evidence of hunting, and that the dates on which the theory rests are too uncertain to be relied on.

A former senior product manager at Master Lock, a trigger lock manufacturer, was quoted as saying “ If you put a trigger lock on any loaded gun, you are making the gun more dangerous .” Critics also point out that a trigger lock will increase the time it takes a gun owner to respond to a self-defense emergency.

Critics have objected to GMOs on several grounds, including tampering with nature, ecological concerns, economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are often subject to intellectual property law, whether food produced from GMOs should be banned or labelled, whether such food is safe, and whether GM crops are useful to address the world's food needs.

Critics have objected to GM crops per se on several grounds, including ecological concerns, and economic concerns raised by the fact these organisms are subject to intellectual property law.

Critics of hypertext claim that it inhibits the old, linear, reader experience by creating several different tracks to read on, and that this in turn contributes to a postmodernist fragmentation of worlds.

Critics suggest that ICANN should not be allowed to impose business rules on market participants, and that all TLDs should be added on a first-come-first-served basis and the market should be the arbiter of who succeeds and who does not.

Lewis has won several awards for lifetime achievements from The American Comedy Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and Venice Film Festival, and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Critics applauded Spacey's daring for taking on the management of a theatre, but noted that while his acting was impressive, his skills and judgment as a producer / manager had yet to develop.

Critics of the 1960s focused on the reputation of the poem and how it compared to Coleridge's other poems.

Critics in the early twentieth century reacted against what they saw as an excessive dependence on the study of character in criticism of the play.

Critics believed the film to be " too sweet " but appreciated Dixit's performance as she mesmerized on the screen.

Critics of the government charge that the government indicted Milken's brother Lowell in order to put pressure on Milken to settle, a tactic condemned as unethical by some legal scholars.

Critics of the magazine felt that this lack of turnover eventually led to a formulaic sameness, although there is little agreement on when the magazine peaked or plunged.

Critics sometimes oppose OBE because of the burden it imposes on instructors and educational institutions more broadly, a burden that they regard as unjustified by any evidence showing that OBE actually improves learning outcomes.

Critics point out that P2P networking has legitimate uses, and that this is another way that large providers are trying to control use and content on the Internet, and direct people towards a client-server-based application architecture.

Critics of cultural feminism hold that cultural feminist ideas on sexuality, exemplified by the feminist anti-pornography movement, severely polarized feminism, leading to the " Feminist Sex Wars " of the 1980s.

Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition.

Critics accuse him of arrogance, economic mismanagement, and unduly favouring the federal government relative to the provinces, especially in trying to control the oil wealth of the Prairies.

Critics of the latter idea point out that the half-life of Pu-240 is 6, 560 years and Pu-239 is 24, 110 years, and thus the relative enrichment of one isotope to the other with time occurs with a half-life of 9, 000 years ( that is, it takes 9000 years for the fraction of Pu-240 in a sample of mixed plutonium isotopes, to spontaneously decrease by half — a typical enrichment needed to turn reactor-grade into weapons-grade Pu ).

Critics argue that there is insufficient data to identify the relative proportions of plant and animal foods consumed on average by Paleolithic humans in general, and they stress the rich variety of ancient and modern hunter-gatherer diets.

Critics of IMBRA claim that the TJC failed to ask Congress to consider the relative amount of abuse between mail-order-bride couples and other couples ( including the thousands of spousal murders that occurred in the US over the past 15 years ).

" The poet Amy Lowell featured her relative James Russell Lowell in her poem A Critical Fable ( 1922 ), the title mocking A Fable for Critics.

Critics of the Performa line, including some Mac users, argued that it was generally underpowered relative to higher-end Mac models.

Critics also point out Nolan ’ s distinct writing style omits articles and uses participle construction other than relative clauses.

Critics claimed that that site was selected over alternatives because it was owned by a relative of Keith Turley, who received almost $ 2 million for the land.

Critics would also conclude that the car's acceleration and fuel economy was not up to the competition's standards, pointing out towards the engine's relative lack of power and torque compared to the vehicle's weight.